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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.snowflake.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

2014

2011

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Based on Windows Authentication

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